Secure Freedom Minute

Our Time's Nelson Mandela - Steve Bannon

Today, thank God, America’s most formidable political prisoner, Stephen K. Bannon, is scheduled to be let out of federal prison. Not since Nelson Mandela was released from jail in South Africa thirty-four years ago has the freeing of a wrongly incarcerated hero been more anticipated – and, quite likely, more consequential.
The latter would apply because my friend Steve’s return to the fray as a leader of the Make America Great Again movement will bring fresh energy and strategic vision to bear at a decisive moment.
To the great credit of the myriad War Room guest hosts and contributors during his absence, the home fires have been kept burning throughout Steve’s four-month incarceration – the result of a politically weaponized and unconstitutional prosecution. They must, and will, do so with necessarily heightened intensity and effect now that Steve Bannon is back in the fight.
This is Frank Gaffney.    

An Enemy Within the Pentagon

Over the weekend, Israel executed a tactically successful, but limited retaliatory strike against Iran. President Biden improbably hopes that will be the end of direct conflict between the two nations.
 
Presumably, he’s even more anxious to leave unanswered the question of who in his administration leaked highly classified intelligence that compromised the initial Israeli attack plan.
 
Speculation has focused on the chief of staff to the assistant secretary of defense responsible for special operations, Ariene Tabatabai. Incredibly, she was just promoted despite evidence indicating she has ties to Iranian government officials.
 
Then there’s this: Red State reported recently that forty U.S. special operators were nearly killed or taken prisoner during Hamas’ October 7th invasion of Israel because the jihadis had very detailed information about their names, ranks and exposed whereabouts.
 
We must find and remove anyone responsible for such treachery. Now. 
 
This is Frank Gaffney.   

The CCP's War is Interested in You

In the closing days of this presidential campaign, you’d never know that the Chinese Communist Party is at war with us.
In fact, as nearly two-hundred webinars conducted by our Committee on the Present Danger: China have documented, the Chinese Communists’ warfare has caused us incalculable harm over many years. And they are now poised to add a shooting war into the mix.
A Soviet Communist named Leon Trotsky famously declared, “You may not be interested in war. But war is interested in you.”
According to the Wall Street Journal, the Harris-Biden administration’s cultural Marxist focus on “diversity, equity and inclusion” has left the U.S. military demoralized and undermanned, clearly ill-prepared for conflict with China.
American voters urgently need the truth about this perilous situation – and clarity about what the presidential candidates think, and are going to do, about it.
This is Frank Gaffney.    

Memo to Kamala - Save Persecuted Christians before Azerbaijan Kills More of Them

Yesterday, President Donald Trump powerfully differentiated himself from Vice President Kamala Harris on an issue of profound importance to millions of voters.
He noted in a Truth Social post that she did “NOTHING as 120,000 Armenian Christians were horrifically persecuted and forcibly displaced” from an enclave in Azerbaijan known as Artsakh.
He went on to warn that “Christians around the world will not be safe if…Harris is President” and that he will protect persecuted Christians, of whom there are estimated to be over 365 million worldwide.
Incredibly, the UN decided to reward Azerbaijan for its past persecution of Christians and to ignore its promise to attack Armenia next by holding a climate change conference in Baku next month.
Kamala Harris should start demonstrating solidarity with persecuted Christians by announcing the U.S. government will not “greenwash” Azeri genocide and will boycott Baku.
This is Frank Gaffney.   

Acknowledge, Identify and Root Out the Enemy Within Now

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
What is the “enemy within”? The term refers to elements inside America – some of foreign origin, some domestic – who seek our destruction and are, to varying degrees, in a position to contribute to it. This threat has been neglected for far too long, at our extreme peril.
Harris-Biden administration policies have enormously exacerbated the danger, allowing vast numbers of Chinese soldiers, jihadists, Venezuelan and other gang members to come here from overseas. Then, there are the home-grown Marxists and Sharia-supremacists doing business as Antifa, Black Lives Matter and the Muslim Brotherhood.
There’s reason to believe the administration has actually put such enemies’ sympathizers in senior positions. One of them is suspected of devastatingly leaking to Iran highly classified information about Israel’s preparations to retaliate against its toxic regime.
We must as a nation acknowledge, identify and root out the enemies within now.
This is Frank Gaffney.   

SFM We Must Hand-count Paper Ballots, Not Rely on Unreliable Voting Machines

A former senior undercover CIA operative named Gary Berntsen has released a video in which he asserts, based apparently on first-hand knowledge, that machines widely used in elections across the United States are unreliable.
The charges are not new. They include claims that Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez developed them to steal one of his own elections. And then, with help from others in Europe and China, the software and hardware were refined to engineer undetected desired electoral outcomes worldwide.
What is new news is that Mr. Berntsen reportedly has not only personal insights into how we got here. He claims to have witnesses able and willing to confirm his allegations.
If true, we obviously cannot have such compromised machines used in this fall’s critically important elections. We must, instead, hand-count paper ballots cast in person by voters with valid government-issued IDs.
This is Frank Gaffney.